Scheduled tasks are a fact of life in any non-trivial Rails app—whether it’s sending out nightly digests, cleaning up stale data, or syncing with external APIs. If you’re using Heroku Scheduler to kick off these jobs, you’ve likely run into its limitations: fixed time windows, separate logging, and the hassle of managing multiple “one-off” dynos. In this article, I’ll show you how to consolidate your cron jobs into Sidekiq Cron, giving you unified monitoring, richer scheduling options, and the performance benefits of Sidekiq’s threaded workers.